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This summer, WHOI robotics and acoustics researcher Erin Fischell (right) used autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) called Bluefin SandSharks to record sounds in Ashumet Pond, Falmouth. Before deploying the lightweight, bright…
Read MoreChemistry at Sea
WHOI research associate Leah Houghton works in the main science lab of the research vessel Neil Armstrong on a cruise off the southern tip of Greenland this summer. Houghton was…
Read MoreTracking a Swimming Squid
WHOI guest investigator Francesco Caruso, biologist Aran Mooney, and research specialist Alex Bocconcelli (left to right) work with a longfin squid in a tank at WHOI’s Environmental Systems Laboratory. Not…
Read MoreOcean Observations
Research vessel Neil Armstrong bosun Pete Liarikos keeps a watchful eye on small boat operations during recovery of a surface buoy at the Global Irminger Sea Array of the Ocean…
Read MoreAquaculture on Cape Cod
Woods Hole Sea Grant director and WHOI marine chemist Matt Charette pulls a CTD onto the fantail of research vessel Tioga during a summer field trip for members of the…
Read MoreGone But Not Forgotten
WHOI biologist Lauren Mullineaux presented the first Diane Poehls Adams Early Career award to Camila Negrão Signori at the 6th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems, recognizing Signori’s research in microbiology…
Read MoreA Slice of Science
The 2017 WHOI Ocean Science Journalism Fellows listen as physical oceanographer Magdalena Andres describes one of the many scientific instruments she uses in her research: a pressure sensor equipped inverted…
Read MoreTrapping Carbon
WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler (foreground left) observes as research associate Steve Pike (center left) and a crewmember of the U.K. research vessel RSS Discovery prepare to deploy a sediment trap into…
Read MoreReady, Set, Record
WHOI robotics and acoustics researcher Erin Fischell (right) prepares to launch an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in Ashumet Pond, Falmouth, while MIT-WHOI Joint Program student EeShan Bhatt (center) and WHOI…
Read MoreLine Out
WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group member Meghan Donohue keeps an eye on the mooring line as she leads recovery of a Global Surface Mooring during a recent R/V Neil…
Read MoreThings Got Better
In 1930, the newly established Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution accepted a $175,000 bid by Burmeister & Wain Ltd., of Copenhagen to build the steel-hulled ketch Atlantis. In July 1931, Atlantis…
Read MoreAnchors Aweigh
It’s a tradition to have a band on the WHOI dock whenever a ship leaves for, or returns from, a notable voyage. In the past, a brass band has helped…
Read MoreNeil Armstrong in New York
R/V Neil Armstrong made a rare appearance in New York City this spring as part of Fleet Week 2017. The ship paraded up the Hudson River and docked for two…
Read MoreAt the Cutting Edge
Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito (right) cuts the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony of WHOI’s DunkWorks facility earlier this summer. Helping her was Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) Deputy Director…
Read MoreScience Made Public: Fukushima Radiation
WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler discusses radiation in the ocean and the impacts of Fukushima across the Pacific — from Japan to North America
Read MoreScience in Two Languages
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Mara Freilich demonstrates how salinity affects ocean stratification and mixing at a recent symposium at WHOI. The event, “OCEANOS: WHOI en Español e Português,” brought together…
Read MoreAtlantis Legacy
Captain Rodolfo Jose Cattaneo of the Argentine research vessel Dr. Bernardo Houssay holds a photo of another captain who preceded him on the same ship, Arthur Dickinson Colburn, Jr. The…
Read MoreWhat They Did This Summer
The annual poster sessons by WHOI Summer Student Fellows are just one sign that summer is over. Each August, undergraduates in the SSF program produce a poster explaining their summer…
Read MoreScience on Display
Inclement weather rarely prevents the research vessel Atlantis from taking scientists to sea—and a rainy day did not deter members of the public from showing up to the Woods Hole Science…
Read MoreOcean World View
WHOI geochemist Chris German joined a panel recently with (left to right) Robert Ballard from the University of Rhode Island, Mary Voytek from NASA, Frieder Klein from WHOI, and Christopher…
Read MoreMulticore Mission
Deck crew and scientists deploy a multicore from the stern of the research vessel Neil Armstrong recently. The multicore is designed to collect up to eight core samples of the seafloor, while carefully…
Read MoreHoming in on Home
Justin Suca dives to the seafloor to install an audio recorder off the coast of the island of St. John in the Caribbean Sea. Suca, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint…
Read MoreThe Sea Around Them
A life-size bronze statue of author, researcher, and environmental advocate Rachel Carson seems to be watching as the research vessel Altantis returned to Woods Hole recently. Carson worked for many years…
Read MoreArctic, Top to Bottom
This oceanographic tool— a Van Veen grab sampler—collects seafloor sediments. It’s probably not the first thing you might expect to find on a research cruise led by a physical oceanographer. But…
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